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close Video 'Empire' star Jussie Smollett makes court appearance The Jussie Smollett story is the perfect example of almost everything wrong with today’s media. The story followed quickly on the heels of another media hoax, where “neutral” reporters tried to destroy boys from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, claiming they were racist. That disaster has already led to a $250 million lawsuit against The Washington Post. The overall news coverage was so biased that other lawsuits will likely follow. Yet journalists learned nothing. CHICAGO POLICE BLAST JUSSIE SMOLLETT 'PHONY ATTACK': 'BOGUS POLICE REPORTS CAUSE REAL HARM' The media found their perfect story in Jussie Smollett. The obscure “Empire” actor – who is black and gay – claimed he had been assaulted in Chicago by two men who yelled “This is MAGA country" and shouted anti-black and anti-gay epithets. It was exactly the story liberal journalists, actors … [Read more...] about Jussie Smollett got lots of oxygen from CNN, other news outlets – No wonder people don’t trust the press

1 of 9 View 9 Items Jose Luis Magana, FR159526 AP Roger Stone speaks at the American Priority Conference in Washington Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018. SALT LAKE CITY — Roger Stone, a longtime associate of President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday morning in an early-morning raid of his Florida home. Stone was indicted on seven different counts. The indictment “accuses him of witness tampering, obstruction and false statements about his interactions related to WikiLeaks' release,” according to The Associated Press. “Some of those false statements were made to the House intelligence committee, prosecutors allege.” This is the first criminal case in months from special counsel Robert Mueller. A number of columnists throughout the media landscape shared their thoughts on the Stone indictment in opinion pieces and columns Friday morning. We’ve collected a few of them and shared them below. The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin … [Read more...] about 9 opinions on the Roger Stone indictment from Washington Post, CNN, Fox News and more media outlets

White House correspondent and CNN political analyst April Ryan discussed her new book, Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House at Barnes & Noble on Wednesday, Oct. 10. Ryan, a Baltimore native and alumna of Morgan State University, has been a member of the White House press corps for 21 years. Although Ryan has worked in the political sphere for decades, she went viral for a video in February 2017 when President Donald J. Trump asked Ryan, one of the only black reporters in the room, if she was friends with the Congressional Black Caucus, a group containing most of the African-American Congress members. Trump asked if Ryan could set up a meeting between himself and the group. Ryan was scheduled to do the 10 o’clock news on CNN after this event and said that her phone would not stop ringing. “We have never seen anything like this. I’m not going to say it’s terrible — it’s historic. As a newsperson, it’s … [Read more...] about CNN political journalist discusses her new book

Nation and World News By Associated Press | Saturday, September 29, 2018, 12:05 a.m. Share this story Tesla faces a reckoning with CEO Elon Musk’s job in jeopardy SAN FRANCISCO — The very attributes that have fueled a mania around Elon Musk — his vision, brash personality and willingness to take risks — could prove to be his downfall. ADVERTISING The Tesla CEO who made his fortune and his renegade-genius reputation by bursting through the barriers of conventional thinking faces a humiliating comedown as government regulators try to oust him from the company in a lawsuit accusing him of duping the electric car maker’s stockholders. But extracting Musk from the company he has become synonymous with could devastate Tesla. Musk’s fans maintain that Tesla would be insane to get rid of him, arguing it would go down as a huge mistake similar to the one Apple made in 1985 when it ousted its own visionary founder, Steve Jobs, only … [Read more...] about AP News in Brief 09-29-18

Leave it to Fox News to always lower the bar of decency when it comes to their so-called political commentary. When discussing Brett Kavanaugh‘s accusers, Kevin Jackson, a Black Fox News contributor, referred to them as “lying skanks.” See Also: Bill Cosby Sentenced To 3 To 10 Years In Prison For Sexual Assault Conviction In a a tweet, Jackson wrote, “Feminists are their own worst enemies, and enemy of women. Also, they want men to NEVER be believed. I’m not succumbing. TO HELL with the notion that women must be believed no matter what. Lying skanks is what these 3 women are, and we ALL know more.” See below: When someone called him out for offensive language, he responded on Twitter with, “That’s my attitude toward liars of any gender.” Hours later, Jackson was fired from Fox News. The company wrote in a statement, “His comments on today’s hearings were reprehensible and do not reflect the values of … [Read more...] about Sunken Place Black Fox News Contributor Is Fired After Trashing Kavanaugh’s Accusers